I was a language master consultant for an undergraduate American Sign Language phonology linguistics course at University California, Davis in the Department of Linguistics.

I also worked in Deaf and Hard of Hearing mainstreamed academic settings where I taught many of Deaf and Hard of Hearing students ASL.

As a Deaf person, I have direct experience with and am personally vested in many aspects of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community. Through my family, I grew up as a member of the...